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fomething odd about them) is Lingua CerviM of diffe- 
rent kinds, FHix of different kinds, Polypodium^ feveral 
of the Plants Papilioriace£y Mufci^ Fungi ^ ConvolvHli^ - 
and a great many more I cannot now remember. 
Now come we to their people. The men are gene- 
rally very civil and fagacious, have all of them good • 
Faces, are of low ftature, but very well built 5 they are 
of a copper colour, and have black hair ^ they us'd to 
go naked^ but are now as well cloath'd as our felves^ 
they wear a plate of Gold in their Nofe, and a great 
many rows of Beads about their Neck and Wrifts: 
They cover their Yard with a piece of Bark, or fome- 
times Silver, of the very fhape and bignefs of that pa- 
per cafe we ufe to p^tt a dofe of Pills in 5 they feem to 
be very ill fumifh'd:^ for I never faw any of them have 
it half an inch long, yet no doubt it's longer, but I - 
fancy they fheath it up, as Dogs and Horfes do. The 
Women are generally the moft pitiful like things that 
ever man faw 5 their habit differs from the Men, for 
they ordinarily wear a Ring in their Nofe 5 they have 
Petticoats and a Veil over their Face. They- are under 
no formal Government, but every Captain commands 
his own^River, Bay or Ifland where he lives, the great- 
eft of them all is one Captain Ambrofio^ he commands 
particularly the Country about the Samballoes point,- 
but when he pleafes, he can levy all the men betwixt 
that and the Gulf about 20 Leagues. There is another 
C2i^t2Lm Pedro^ that lives in the houfe with Amhrofio^ 
and is his Nephew and Son in Law 5 there is a third 
Captain Andreas^ that commands the River das armas 5 
a fourth, Captain Brmdy^ that commands about the^r 
Golden Jfldnd -^ 2i ^thC^ptmn Andreas, that commands:! 
the Country adjoyning to our Settlement 5 and a 6th ' 
Captain Pedro his Gonfort 5 a 7th Captain PacigOy 
who commands at Carret Bay, and Captain Diego that 
commands the Gulph. Amhrojio feems to be the great- 
eft, 
